I think to best explain what I am doing at the moment I need to explain something or other about my sister. My sister has been asking me (repetitively) for a while now to make her a website so she can advertise and rent her properties out.

[That’ll suffice with the sister talk]

Well, obviously slaving away at my computer for hours on end would not be justified by the paragraph above. However, being lazy I looked for my options and alternatives and I was pointed in the direction of pre-built CMS (Content Management System(s)). I tried a couple and realized that they were so ghastly, streamlined for commercial use and over complicated with options for everything you never needed.

I concluded that the only real option was that I’d have to design and make my sister’s website from scratch; in doing this it occurred to me that I should make a cms the opposite of what is already out there at the moment. What I am suggesting is literally a content management system, with the options to expand in a modular form.

Obviously that isn’t as simple as I was going to leave it, I decided that to do the job properly I’d do it how I’ve been meaning to do for a long time and that involves XML and XSLT in a big way. Using a MySQL database back end I’ll interpret the data using PHP to render it into XML, which then will take form into any shape of form you wish to view the content… by this I mean I could knock the articles out as web-pages, RSS documents, PDF, Word Documents, etc.

Just a novel idea I’m working on… I’m not even close to having anything to show for it at the moment.

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